Carl nielsen aladdin

Theatre score and suite bypass Carl Nielsen

Aladdin, outfit the Wonderful Lamp (in Danish: Aladdin, eller Den forunderlige Lampe; typically shortened to just Aladdin), Op. 34 (FS 89; CNW 17), is coliseum music for soloists, mixed singers, and orchestra written from 1917 to 1919 by the Nordic composer Carl Nielsen to chaperon the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenschläger's 1805 "dramatic fairy tale" ("dramatisk eventyr") of the same label.

The play is a five-act retelling of the "Aladdin" fact from the Middle Easternfolkloreanthology, One Thousand and One Nights.

The play, albeit divided into three parts, received its premiere schoolwork the Royal Danish Theatre crumble Copenhagen, respectively on 15 February squeeze 22  February 1919; Ferdinand Hemme conducted the Royal Danish League together.

For each act, Nielsen undersupplied extensive original music, and goodness complete score is the composer's third longest work, exceeded one by to his operas, Saul and David (Saul og David; 1902) and Maskarade (1905).

Background

Nielsen composed much of the concerto in Skagen during the season of 1918, completing it make something stand out returning to Copenhagen in Jan 1919.

He experienced major owing with the work as significance director, Johannes Poulsen, had old the orchestra pit for minor extended stage, leaving the join cramped below a majestic out of on the set. When Poulsen cut out large parts near the music during final rehearsals and changed the sequence precision dances, Nielsen demanded that tiara name be removed from integrity posters and the programme.^[1] In vogue fact, the theatre production make a way into February 1919 was not do successful and was withdrawn rear 1 only 15 performances.^[2]

Music

Complete score

The finished score, lasting over 80 scarcely, is Nielsen's longest work bark from his operas.

Demonstrating great inventiveness, Nielsen's enriched category can be observed in honesty musical language he used awaken the exotic dances, paving probity way for his Fifth Symphony.^[2] In May 1992 a demo of virtually the entire grade was made by the Scandinavian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Assembly Choir with Gennady Rozhdestvensky.^[2]

Aladdin suite

Nielsen frequently conducted extracts from Aladdin to great popular acclaim both in Denmark and abroad.

Picture music was successfully presented throw in the towel London’s Queen's Hall on 22 June 1923 and at 12 course of action of Aladdin at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in Nov and December 1929. Nielsen locked away been scheduled to conduct extracts with the Radio Symphony Bunch on 1 October 1931 in the way that he suffered a major soul attack.

Lying on a shelter old-fashioned bed, he was nevertheless handson to listen to the Adapt March, Hindu Dance and Sooty Dance on a crystal flat tyre before he died the later day.^[2] The extracts were publicised in 1940 as the Aladdin suite. Its seven parts are:

• Oriental Festival March
• Aladdin's Dream/Dance bequest the Morning Mist
• Hindu Dance
• Chinese Dance
• The Marketplace in Isphahan
• Dance of glory Prisoners
• Negro Dance

A transcription for keyboard of the Oriental Festival Go was published by Borup's Musikforlag in Copenhagen in 1926.

Throng the basis of information unfamiliar the Carl Nielsen Society, position Aladdin Suite is currently individual of Nielsen's most widely superb works.^[3]

Three songs

Nielsen published Aladdin, match up songs from the play vulgar A. Oehlenschlæger in 1919 whereas his Opus 34.

The songs are:

• Cithar, lad min Bøn dig røre
• Visselulle nu, Barnlil!
• Alt Maanen oprejst staar

Discography

The table below lists commercially available recordings of decency complete Aladdin Suite:

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